The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 August 2013
- ISBN 9780198222484
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages792 pages
- Size 218x148x49 mm
- Weight 1084 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 black and white image 90
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Short description:
The letters of Abelard and Heloise contain a vivid account of one of the most celebrated love affairs in the western world that raised questions about love, marriage, and religious life in the Middle Ages. This much needed new edition of the Latin text contains English translation, a full introduction, extensive annotation, and detailed indexes.
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The collected letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise provide an extraordinarily vivid account of one of the most celebrated love affairs in the western world. It was an affair that developed into a vigorous quarrel and raised fundamental questions about love, marriage, and religious life, and also provided a uniquely valuable illustration of the intellectual and religious ferment that is called the Renaissance of the twelfth century.
Abelard was the leading philosopher of his time and a very public figure in France, as well as being a fiercely attacked theologian and unpopular abbot. Heloise, his brilliant pupil, lover, and wife, also became a nun and abbess, much against her will. She provoked this brilliantly written correspondence which is widely regarded as one of the finest literary compositions of the twelfth century. These letters have for many centuries given enjoyment to their readers and have inspired numerous creative imitations. They have also given rise to huge disagreements over their historical content and significance. The collection opens with an autobiography which contains the story of the calamities that followed Abelard's successes - his castration, his condemnation for heresy, and the unhappiness of the couple's separation. Heloise's letters show an exceptional outpouring of grief and bitter recrimination. Yet the correspondence closes with thoroughly serious, scholarly, and original enquiries into the origins and development of pagan, Jewish, and Christian ideals of religious life both male and female. It constitutes a fundamental source for discussion and debate about important features of thought and religion in the Middle Ages.
A new critical edition based on all the manuscripts has long been needed. Its appearance here with a facing English translation, a full introduction, extensive annotation taking into account recent scholarship, and detailed indexes will enable all kinds of readers to enjoy the letters and to join the debates which they always stir.
On account of the fullness, accurary, and clarity with which the evidence for the Latin text and its context is presented, I am convinced that the volume will frequently be consulted by scholars who seek further to understand one of the most dynamic and interesting periods of medieval history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
History And Legend
The Letter Collection
Other Letters
Other Letters Relating to the Oratory of the Paraclete
Authorship and Authenticity of the Letter Collection
Style and Structure
Epistulae Duorum Amantium
The Development of the Oratory of the Paraclete
History of the Text
The Surviving Manuscripts
Lost or Uncertainly Identified Manuscripts and other Testimonies to the Letter Collection Prior to the First Printed Edition
Rejected Manuscripts
Summary List of Surviving and Lost or Uncertainly Identified Manuscripts in Approximate Chronological Order and of their Provenance or Earliest Known Possessors
Printed Editions of the Letter Collection: Before 1800
Printed Editions from 1800 of the Letter Collection which use one or more Manuscripts, both Latin and French
The Present Edition
Relationships between the Manuscripts
Stemma
The Edition
The Translation
Sigla of the Manuscripts
Summary of Manuscript Witnesses to each of the Letters and of their Extents
Letter 1
Letter 2
Letter 3
Letter 4
Letter 5
Letter 6
Letter 7
Letter 8
The Rule
Bibliography
Concordance
Indexes
